I've been busy this summer: We moved 650 miles up the Mississippi River, where I've taken a new job as Director of Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. This program is part of an exciting strategic plan that the college of Arts & Sciences recently embarked on. I wrote a bit about what we're doing with the new program for Inside Higher Ed. I also wrote a new piece about how air travel is in a rut, for The Conversation—a key venue we're utilizing to enhance public scholarship at WashU.